Digital BW, The Print

I know what you mean; I was dismayed when I saw that William Turner 
190 gsm was discontinued.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
>
> the point of the original post was that a paper that can yeild 
extraordinary B&W prints is 
> being discontinued. Purely conversational I guess, thought it 
was "news".
> You lost me on the rest.
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani" 
<shileshjani@b...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Tyler wrote:
> > 
> > > The point to me was it's not the numbers... it's the visual 
impact.
> > > It's not a big number black, it's a gorgeous velvety black you 
can
> > > fall into.
> > 
> > Sounds like religion; "get-by on faith, my faith" and so on. You 
can 
> > fall a lot deeper into a Dmax 2.0 hole than a Dmax 1.7 hole - oh, 
don't 
> > belive the numbers, just trust me because my head has a bigger 
bump 
> > falling in the former.
> > 
> > I don't mean to be impudent, but what is the point to the 
original post 
> > unless you give the readers some point of objective reference, 
i.e., 
> > measured density. Bill Atkinson is proabably a great guy, but I 
hazard 
> > a guess that his reputation is built not by "Bill-Speak" but with 
real 
> > data - his printer profiles. Let's all remember: "data is king."
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> > Shilesh
> >
>